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...Jacquin's Postulate. No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.−Anonymous...
...witnesses were little worried by lost lubrication; a recent survey by the Research Institute of America showed that 61% of U.S. executives feel that some rule-tightening would be desirable. What bothered businessmen most was all the bookkeeping that the IRS proposed to inflict on them. Predicted Accountant Jacquin D. Bierman...
...Died. Jacquin Leonard (Jack) Lait, 71, oldtime Chicago newspaperman, since 1936 editor of Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror (circ. 913,691 daily, 1,664,703 Sunday); after long illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes...
When Barbara Joiner Parsons was made a general partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm of Jacquin, Stanley & Co., she received a telegram from the Ziegfeld Club: "Darling, Congratulations." Barbara is an ex-dancer in the Follies, and the first Ziegfeld girl to reach such starry heights on the Street. Only about 50 women are general partners on Wall Street. Texas-born Barbara Parsons got into the Follies of 1018, pranced and kicked. alongside such stars as Marilyn Miller and Eddie Cantor. After leaving the Follies she took some business courses, got a job selling a financial letter...
...Religion has been doing a good selling job," said E. N. Jacquin of the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette. "Religious promotion efforts, plus the perplexities of modern life" were the causes, said M. H. Williams of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram-Gazette. David Patten of the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin answered: "Religious people seem to want everyone else to get religion...